Our experience has shown that using collaborative processes can lead to fairer and more creative, inclusive, and effective solutions. Our team of staff, faculty, consultants, subject matter experts, and students are able to craft and design mediation, negotiation, training, assessment and many other services to suit your needs. Explore our expertise below for more ideas on how we can work together.
- Facilitation
Whether you are seeking to host a one-day event, a long-term community engagement, regulatory negotiation, or anything in between IEN provides expert design to help you meet your goals in a way that is inclusive, responsive, adaptive, and effective. Don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have questions or want to chat about whether we're a good match for your needs.
- Training
IEN has decades of experience customizing training for your group's specific needs. We would be happy to develop a training or workshop to address your goals and build the skills your people need. In addition to customized training, we also offer several "tried and true" flagship trainings. Find out more on our Trainings page.
- Research
Much of IEN's work is a form of community-based research, sometimes short-term with very focused goals, and sometimes more long-term interdisciplinary academic research projects. Our research takes many forms, including:
- Situation assessments (what are the issues, challenges, opportunities)
- Stakeholder surveys and analysis
- Qualitative interviews
- Focus groups
- Stakeholder engagement (numerous forms)
- Community workshops
- Symposia
- Collaborative summits
- Technical advisory groups
- Collaboratively developed research protocols
- Issue briefs
